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  • SPLENDID BEWICK WOODCUTS IN A FINE REGENCY FULL CALF BINDING
    Select Fables. by BEWICK, Thomas and John. (With cuts, designed and engraved by).
    BEWICK, Thomas and John. (With cuts, designed and engraved by).
    Select Fables.

    Newcastle: Printed by Hodgson, For Emerson Charnley, Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1820. Full calf, 8 1/2 inches tall. A fine Regency full calf with wide gilt raised bands and rather wonderful gilt tooling to the panels around a peacock, A series of gilt and blind fillets frame dense blind 'basket weave' tooling on the boards. Engraved portrait, title page and more than 360 vignettes cuts illustrating the charming fables. From the library of Lord Kinnaird of Rossie Priory. A little foxing, specifically to the portrait, otherwise a superb copy.

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